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Research is an Active Word

This week's readings were selected by Andaiye. She chose an excerpt from a book, Teacher Research for Better Schools titled, Out of Our Experience:Useful Theory and the other was a piece written by Davida Charney titled, Empiricism Is Not a Four Letter Word. Both pieces dealt with research theories and ways to analyze practices and research methodologies.  Before I could fully understand and dissect the Charney piece I had to look up the word empiricism. And in my research I discovered that it means, "t he theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.  " This really put things into perspective for me. Now I was ready to tackle the article-- which was tough to read as it was loaded with jargon.  The argument that they are making in the text is that,  "the fallibility of our knowledge--or the thesis that all knowledge is guesswork..."   This really stood out to me. Through research you learn.  Research allows to you the space to discover wh

Writing in the Digital Margins

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This week, I was able to go back and give a second reading to the James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker article titled, Liminal Spaces and Research Identity. Clearly, I didn't read the fine print in the posted directions from Dr. Zamora's previous blog, as I referenced this article in my last post. But, nonetheless I was given another opportunity to look at this text online with an online tool whose features felt remotely familiar to me. Last week I read the article and wrote down the interesting quotes in my notebook that stuck out to me and I thought warranted further analysis. And while I was doing so I cursed myself for not having any more ink in my home printer. When I had gone to work on Monday I had hoped that I would be able to print there so I could read the text in a manner that was more familiar to me -- you know with a highlighter and making annotations in the margins. Sadly, I couldn't print there either. I had ink at work but no paper. So I was never afforde